Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
I’m falling in love with my comment spam. Seriously.
No, it’s not because I get a kick out of reading a series of disjointed phrases describing various prescription medications and/or lewd photo-viewing opportunities.
After years of quickly deleting my comment spam, I’m now using it.
Spammers are annoying little monsters, but they aren’t stupid. They know a few [...]
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
One of the most frustrating things about this business is the lack of solid data supporting various content-based strategies. Some of us have a very good idea of what works, but we don’t always have the numbers to prove it. Even when we do have numbers, the inherently subjective nature of relative content quality complicates [...]
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Also tagged article marketing, articles, backlinks, content, content writing, ezine articles, ezinearticles.com, freelance writing, goarticles, research, sales, searchwarp, traffic
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Let’s start with a simple and true statement:
There is no such thing as a Google duplicate content penalty.
It does not exist. Period. Don’t believe me? Fine. Believe Google.
That’s right, the fine folks at the Big G have told the world that there is no duplicate content penalty. None. It’s a lie. It’s a myth. It’s [...]
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
No one likes reading material that was written purely for the sake of getting Google’s attention.
There are few things more annoying than web content that exists solely to register with search engines. You know the kind of thing I’m talking about. People detest keyword-rich content.
“Dentist Altoona Pennsylvania is a great idea if you have a [...]
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Also tagged content, Google, keyword density, keyword-rich content, keywords, readability, search engine, SEO content, web content, writer, writing
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
I want to suck up to Google just as much as the next guy and, as we all know, that means spending some time securing backlinks.
That comes easy for some projects. Others, however, can’t hope to rely on link-baity goodness to secure those links. I’m a cheapskate and I live in fear that [...]
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Also tagged articles, backlinks, blogs, directories, directory, dofollow, Google, hubpages, inbound links, LINKS, paid links, reciprocal links, search engines, site directories, squidoo
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Attention all freelance writer types and content specialists out there: Google is writing great ad copy and testimonials for you. Again.
Google’s own Maile Ohye offered a little lesson about “Good Times with Inbound Links” at the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog. Maile’s talking about how Google wants to rate your sites… [...]